Sealed bid proposals will be received by the New Jersey Schools Construction Corporation(“NJSCC”) at their offices at One W. State Street, Second Floor, Trenton, NJ 08625, Attention: Kim Banegas for the following work:

Contract No.:                        HS-0080-C04
Contract Name:                    General Construction
District:                                 Camden
County:                                 Camden
No. of Schools:                     1 (Challenge Square)
Estimated Package Cost:    $ 539,967

Brief description of work: General construction, carpentry, stair upgrades, lighting and fire alarm upgrades.

This work will be bid and constructed as a single overall contract (one lump sum for all trades).

Bid proposals for the above work will be received from bidders registered with the Division of Revenue and Department of Labor, and classified by the Department of Treasury, Division of Property Management and Construction and the NJSCC in the following trade(s):

General Contractor with a DPMC Classification of C008 or C009 who will be required to also have the following DPMC Specialty Trade or required to engage a subcontractor classified in the following DPMC Specialty Trade if not possessed by the General Contractor:

Electrical:               C047

Bids will be received until February 18, 2003 at 2:00 PM (local time) at which time the bids will be publicly opened and the lump sum base bid price submitted by each bidder will be read. Any bid proposal received after this date and time will be returned unopened.

A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held as follows:

Pre-Bid Date:       January 31, 2003
Pre-Bid Time:       2:00 PM (local time)
Pre-Bid Place:      Don Todd Associates
                              433 Market Street, Suite 202
                              Camden, NJ 08102

Plans and specifications may be inspected or obtained for a deposit of $150.00 for each set of documents, during regular business hours, from:

Don Todd Associates
433 Market Street, Suite 202
Camden, NJ 07102
856-365-3330

Deposits shall be made payable to the NJSCC.

Bidders are required to comply with the requirements of P.L. 1975, c. 127 (N.J.A.C. 17:27), pertaining to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity.

The NJSCC reserves the right to waive any non-material defects or to reject any or all bids.

For further information on NJSCC, please visit us at “www.njscc.com”.